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[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 336 points 1 year ago

I never will understand how somebody gets into any facet of medicine (e.g. nurse, doctor, pharmacist) and find it okay to deny anybody healthcare solely based on how the person lives. Like dude, there are better ways to make money and be a bigot at the same time. Insurance CEO comes to mind. Cannon fodder as well.

[-] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 132 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because nursing school will shove you through even if you should fail and it's an affordable 2 year degree that pays. And that's how I ended up explaining what the P in HIPAA stands for and how to operate a mask. White trash nurses are a meme.

[-] Zorcron@lemmy.zip 55 points 1 year ago
[-] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's probably time to sleep... But the memes!

[-] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

Don't feel too bad, I once had a ticket come across my desk for HIPPO violations. It took half the day to figure out what they were talking about.

[-] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Oh nooo, was the hippo OK?

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

HIPPO violations? You'd think those websites would be blocked by the firewall.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

My first college was a technical college that also trained nurses. If there’s one thing I learned it’s that nurses have nasty hygiene habits. Hopefully that gets washed out (pun intended) in the field; eventually.

[-] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I'm in a med lab program and they talk so much shit about nurses in our lectures (no offence). They even hire actors and we do conflict resolution exercises like phoning an exhausted nurse to let her know her third draw just got rejected and they need another sample or order of draw problems ect...

[-] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 year ago

In practice you figure out which nurses are what kind of idiot and cling to the ones who are competent. The upside to the dumb ones is they never figure out why the new girl and the woman looking at retirement get more hours and are specifically called so often.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Don't they have a lot of male nurses where you are? Maybe because it's Seattle and a big town, but my parents in a smallish town had them too.

[-] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'm in Toronto and just wrapping up my program so I can't really comment on that but I personally know a few male and female nurses.

[-] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

...HIPAA has one P.

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 20 points 1 year ago

What if the patient is a health care CEO who is known for denying health care to others?

[-] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Definitely treat them. Really enthusiastically. And let everyone else in the building, perhaps people whose inaurance is fucking them, know what room it's in. Obviously stay on hand to make sure nobody gets any mortal injuries. Bill it extra for every part of that. Do not let your patient die. Dying us bad; think of everything left in the world for your patient to do!

This is a happy fantasy. I wish doctors were this cool.

[-] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 1 year ago

This is the way.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Make sure to leave out the patient name and occupation when filling out the healthcare paperwork to see if they are covered for whatever procedures they need.

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Hippocratic Oath. So you turn off their life support obviously

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would still help them, I may stab right after tho.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Oh I’m sorry, I can’t seem to find the vein. Gosh, have you been drinking enough fluids?

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Same answer to both; cowardly traditionalist afraid to speak their minds.

From traditional/conservative families which value the status of being a doctor, not the "helping patients" part. Prejudiced.

[-] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago

This.

There are so, so many doctors who ended up in the profession merely for the prestige.

Doctors aren't smarter than everyone else, they just had the resources to be able to study for more years.

[-] Soapbox@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year ago

On a similar vein, I don't understand doctors who are young earth creationists. Your whole job is understanding biology.

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